A pal of jailed wheeler-dealer Raffaello Follieri suspects the starlet
spoke with the FBI shortly before
they arrested her ex for an alleged $6 million con job.

"It makes sense," the friend said. "She's referred to as his
former girlfriend in the indictment even though her spokesman
never confirmed they broke up." [Perhaps they just read the
tabloids like everyone else. The Feds can spot a non-denial
denial better than anyone.]

Hathaway, who is not identified by name in the criminal
complaint, split with Follieri shortly before his arrest last
week. He is charged with posing as an agent of the Vatican to fleece investors out of millions.

"I think that in return for her cooperation, the feds held off on
arresting Follieri until she was out of the country," the friend
said.

The friend's almost certainly hallucinating, at least about the
deal part. But that's not to say Hathaway didn't rush out of the
country on her own.